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But it’s the CTV reality show, The Launch, where Poesy hopes her music career is really “launched.”

Late Wednesday, radio stations across the country received copies of the Western University graduate’s newest recording, Soldier of Love, penned by producer and The Launch mentor, Stephan Moccio — a Western University music graduate with collaborator Lindy Robbins.

The song is also available for purchase and streaming everywhere, including iHeartRadio, Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

“It’s a pretty epic song, big movie-like and very me,” said Poesy in an interview.

“It was like a surreal experience for me. When I was a kid, I was always amazed music was a start and to the finish path, but when I found out I was going to be on the show I realized that is just what it was going to be and I had to make the most of it. I love the song.”

Poesy’s version of the song was selected over co-finalist Ezra Jordan, of Toronto, by the three judges — Moccio, singer Fergie and show’s co-creator and music mogul Scott Borchetta — during The Launch’s fourth episode.

Londoner Faiza was also on the show but was not selected to record the song.

Another Londoner, 16-year-old high school student Sariyah Hines and Nova Scotia singer Jaryd Stanley did not appear on the show, but their auditions can be seen on The Director’s Cut, available on CTV.ca and CTV GO as well as CraveTV immediately after the broadcast.

Poesy was studying English and creative writing at Western when she started her music career, playing in local bars with musical friends from school, including a show at London Music Hall.

She said a gig at Call the Office was cancelled last fall due to illness and “I still hope I get to perform there, it’s a cool venue.”

Poesy, Sarah Botelho, 23, is the daughter of Ulysses, who works for the RCMP, and Lisa, a real estate agent in Ancaster. She was born in Nova Scotia but moved to Ontario when she was six years old. She has a younger brother, Logan, 20.

She started taking piano lessons when she was a child, a passion that has blossomed into a career.

“No one in my family is musical, no one plays an instrument,” said Poesy. “But my dad introduced me to a lot of classic rock and I really got into music. Then, when I got to university, that’s really when I started taking music seriously and I made friends with a lot of musical people and we started playing around town at bars.”

It was while still at Western (she graduated in 2016) that she recorded her first EP, titled The Spotless Mind.

She found her stage name in a philosophy book, an Old World word for poetry and “poetry, lyrics, are really important to me.”

Poesy said she finds inspiration for her writing in her “personal, everyday life or events that inspire me that I put into a more poetic form.”

She said it was fun working with Moccio “because I feel like we’re similarly weird and eccentric people.”

For now, she’s just hoping the song will get her some attention.

“I hope it goes well and people like it and that it’s all just the beginning of good things to come. Hopefully, it will open some doors for me.”